© Roger M Tagg 2010-2011
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There are 114 suras (chapters) in the Koran, varying in length from about 30 pages down to less than half a page. There is a large amount of duplication of material, some ambiguity (admitted!) and, occasionally, some apparent contradictions. This is why I have grouped the highlighted quotations by topic and not by sura.
The quotations in the lists below are from an English translation by NJ Dawood. Not all are exact quotes; some just my best interpretations, and I have combined some quotations that were almost identical. They have been re-organized by broad topic categories as follows:
The numbers in the right hand column are those of the suras where the stated item occurs. A number in brackets means the quotation appears more than once in the same sura. The codes on the left are from my own system, and can be ignored, except that D usually means "do" and N means "don't".
| D1 | Have faith in the unseen | 2 |
| D4 | Trust what Mohammed and the earlier prophets revealed | 2 |
| D5 | Firmly believe in the Life to Come | 2,27 |
| D8 | Believe in God and the Last Day | 2 |
| D11 | Be steadfast in trial and adversity, and in times of war | 2 |
| D15 | Implore forgiveness (for one's misdeeds) | 3 |
| D16 | Be steadfast, sincere and obedient | 3 |
| D17 | Die true Moslems | 3 |
| D23 | Believe in that which has been revealed | 4 |
| D41 | Give God a generous loan, get repaid twofold | 5,57,64,73 |
| D47 | Have faith in the "unlettered prophet" | 7 |
| D48 | Guard against temptation - God won't only tempt unbelievers | 8 |
| D50 | Have patience | 8,11 |
| D61 | Seek forgiveness of your Lord and turn to Him in repentance | 11 |
| D62 | Dread the terrors of Judgment Day | 13 |
| N1 | Don't doubt the Book | 2,3 |
| N2 | Don't sell the revelations for a paltry price | 2,3,16 |
| N5 | Don't write scripture oneself | 2 |
| N33 | Don't accept some apostles, but not others | 4 |
| N34 | Don't accept the Christians' Trinity | 4,5 |
| N7 | Don't be an enemy of angels and apostles | 2 |
| N50 | Don't tell of God what you do not know | 7 |
| N51 | Don't worship what is not sanctioned by God | 7 |
| N16 | Don't dispute Mohammed's endorsement of Jesus | 3 |
| N17 | Don't misquote the scriptures (of the Book) | 3 |
| N56 | Don't visit mosques unless you believe in God, the Last Day, pray, pay the alms tax, and fear no other than God | 9(2) |
| N60 | Don't be a schismatic | 15 |
| N89 | Don't think one is one's own master | 96 |
| N65 | Don't serve other gods | 17(2),25,98 |
| N40 | Don't ask questions about things which, if made known to you, would only pain you (unless as part of Koran being revealed) | 5 |
| N70 | Don't turn your eyes away from praying in quest of the good things in life | 18 |
| N87 | Don't disbelieve in goodness | 92 |
| N68 | Don't follow what you do not know | 17 |
| N69 | Don't walk proudly on the earth | 17,31 |
| N83 | Don't let riches and children beguile you into thinking you are doing OK | 63,89 |
| N47 | Don't follow other masters besides Him (God) | 7 |
| N52 | Don't cling to earthly life and succumb to its desires | 7,9 |
| D9 | Be kind to parents, kinsfolk, orphans and the destitute | 2,17,42,46 |
| D10 | Keep one's promises | 2 |
| D84 | Keep promises and bear true witness | 70 |
| D91 | Have faith, do good works | 103 |
| D92 | Exhort each other to justice and fortitude | 103 |
| D63 | Enjoin justice, kindness and charity to one's kinsfolk | 16 |
| D64 | Best to endure the wrongs against you with patience | 16 |
| D65 | Be courteous in your speech | 17 |
| D24 | Hand back trusts to their rightful owners | 4 |
| D25 | Pass judgment on men with fairness | 4 |
| D72 | When entering another house, salute the others in the name of God | 24 |
| D18 | Curb your anger and forgive your fellow men | 3 |
| D30 | Return a man's greeting, better than his if possible | 4 |
| D76 | Requite evil with good, and he who is your enemy will become your dearest friend | 41 |
| D79 | Check the facts of any news brought to you by unbelievers, before you wrong anybody | 49 |
| D80 | Be kind and equitable to those who have neither made war on your religion nor have driven you from your homes | 60 |
| D22 | Show kindness to parents, kindred, orphans, needy, near and distant neighbours, fellow-travellers, wayfarers, slaves | 4,6,29 |
| D42 | Vie with each other in good works | 5 |
| D43 | Withdraw from those who scoff at the revelations, until they change the subject | 6 |
| D44 | Avoid those who treat their faith as a sport and a pastime | 6 |
| D94 | Agree to differ with unbelievers | 109 |
| N26 | Don't befriend unbelievers until they have fled their homes for the cause of God | 4 |
| N77 | Don't be either extravagant or niggardly | 25 |
| N78 | Don't treat men with scorn, mock (defame, call names, incite immoderate suspicion, spy on) other men, or be a backbiting slanderer | 31,49 104 |
| N79 | Keep your voice low | 31 |
| N80 | Don't oppress your fellow man, or do wickedness or injustice | 42 |
| N22 | Don't be arrogant, boastful, niggardly, encourage others to be niggardly, spend wealth for sake of ostentation | 4 |
| N15 | Don't make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful, or with enemies of believers, or opponents in religious wars, or those who have evicted you from your homes | 3(2)4,9,60 |
| N31 | Don't listen while the revelations are being ridiculed | 4 |
| N32 | Don't utter harsh words, unless truly wronged | 4 |
| N46 | Don't have anything to do with those who have split up their religion into sects (RT: that includes Christians and Moslems!) | 6 |
| N49 | Don't practice wrongful oppression | 7 |
| N72 | Don't give ear to scandals or spread slanders and falsehoods | 24 |
| N74 | Don't enter the dwellings of other men without permission, even if there is no-one there. If you are refused admission, go away | 24 |
| N75 | Don't, on a grave occasion, depart without the host's leave | 24 |
| N82 | Don't say one thing and do another (i.e. be a hypocrite) | 61,63 |
| N67 | Don't carry your vengeance too far | 17 |
| N55 | Don't make friends with those that embraced the faith but didn't leave their homes | 8 |
| N94 | Don't be a slinking prompter who whispers in men's hearts | 114 |
| B1 | Don't take Jews or Christians for your friends; your only friends are God, the Apostle and the faithful | 5(2) |
| R1 | It's OK to defer fasting if one is ill or on a journey | 2 |
| R2 | Fasting must begin immediately there is enough dawn light | 2 |
| R3 | When rising to pray, wash faces, and hands as far as the elbow; wipe head and also feet to the ankle. Use sand if no water | 5 |
| R4 | Recite prayers morning and evening, and in the night-time too | 11 |
| R5 | Recite prayers at sunset, nightfall and dawn, also during the night | 17 |
| R6 | Say "Praise be to God who has never begotten a son, who has no partner in his kingdom" | 17 |
| R7 | Recite prayers in a middle voice, neither too loud or too softly | 17 |
| R8 | For every nation we have ordained a ritual for consecrating food to be eaten (on pilgrimage I think) | 22(2) |
| R9 | Camels are part of the rites (on pilgrimage) - to be slaughtered and eaten, also feed the poor and beggars | 22 |
| D74 | Prostrate oneself in adoration, forsake one's beds to pray in fear and hope | 32 |
| D12 | Observe statutory fasts as best one can | 2 |
| D13 | Make the pilgrimage to Mecca (even just one night is enough) | 2,22 |
| D2 | Be steadfast in prayer, attend to one's prayers (with promptitude) | 2,5,22,27,31 70,73,98 |
| D66 | On the pilgrimage, spruce yourself, make your vows, circle the ancient house (Ka'aba) | 22 |
| D6 | Worship with the worshippers | 2 |
| D35 | After prayers, remember God standing, sitting and lying down | 4 |
| D45 | Dress well when you attend your mosques | 7 |
| D46 | Pray in humility and in secret | 7 |
| D85 | Recite in the night as many verses of the Koran as you are able | 73 |
| N41 | Don't sacrifice animals for religious purposes | 5 |
| N42 | Don't revile the pagan idols, to avoid the pagans reviling God | 6 |
| N57 | Don't postpone the sacred months | 9 |
| N35 | Don't eat game while on pilgrimage | 5(2) |
| N36 | Don't violate the rites of God, the sacred months, the offerings and ornaments, or pilgrims | 5 |
| N76 | Don't address the apostle just like you address anyone else | 24 |
| N81 | Don't shout in the presence of the Prophet | 49 |
| N24 | Don't approach prayers when drunk or polluted (until washed with water or sand) | 4 |
| N91 | Don't be heedless in prayer | 107 |
| A1 | Pay the alms tax | 5(2)22,27, 31,73,98 |
| A2 | Give of one's wealth to kinsfolk, orphans, the needy, wayfarers, beggars - and for the redemption of captives | 2,17,30 |
| A3 | Give alms in private, rather than in public | 2 |
| A4 | Give alms in both prosperity and adversity | 3 |
| A5 | Alms shall be used only for the advancement of God's cause, the ransom of captives and debtors, distribution among the poor, destitute, wayfarers, alms collectors, and converts | 9 |
| A6 | Give in charity, give alms, do good works - seeking no recompense | 92 |
| D3 | Bestow parts of one's assets in charity | 2,3 |
| D19 | Give orphans the property which belongs to them | 4 |
| D20 | Maintain the feeble-minded | 4 |
| D14 | Be charitable | 2,3,32 |
| D86 | Give sustenance to the poor man, the orphan and the captive | 76 |
| D87 | Vie with each other in feeding the poor | 89 |
| D88 | Free a bondsman, enjoin fortitude, show mercy | 90 |
| D89 | Feed an orphaned relative, a needy man in distress | 90 |
| D93 | Urge others to feed the poor | 107 |
| N8 | Don't follow almsgiving with taunts and insults | 2 |
| N90 | Don't turn away the orphan | 107 |
| N18 | Do not cheat orphans of their possessions, or touch their property if you are their ward | 4,6,17 |
| N73 | If rich, don't withhold gifts from kindred, poor and those who leave home to fight | 24 |
| N88 | Don't wrong the orphan, dismiss the beggar | 93 |
| N86 | Don't lay your hands on the inheritance of the weak | 89 |
| N92 | Don't show piety but give no alms | 107 |
| F1 | It's OK to kill aggressors | 2 |
| F2 | The spoils belong to God and the Apostle | 8 |
| F3 | God sends a thousand angels to fight on the Moslems' side | 8 |
| F4 | One fifth of the spoils go to God, the Apostle, his kinsfolk, orphans, the needy and the wayfarers | 8 |
| F5 | God has promised rich booty | 48 |
| F6 | If desert Arabs desert, they will be punished | 48 |
| F7 | If unbelievers oppose believers in battle, they will be routed | 48 |
| F8 | Those that follow the prophet are ruthless to unbelievers | 48 |
| F9 | Those that give of their wealth before the battle have a higher honour | 57 |
| F10 | Allocation of the spoils is very much up to the Prophet | 59 |
| D31 | Kill two-timers, those that both support you and your enemy | 4 |
| D67 | Take up arms is you are attacked when on pilgrimage | 22 |
| D28 | Fight to deliver helpless old men, women and children from a city of wrongdoers, against idolaters and friends of Satan | 4 |
| D77 | Strike off the hands of the unbelievers when in battle | 47 |
| D78 | Bind captives from battle, then either ransom or free them | 47 |
| D56 | Give the sacred 4 months immunity to idolaters with whom one has made agreements, but one is free of obligation to them | 9 |
| D57 | Proclaim woeful punishment to the unbelievers, unless they honour the treaties | 9 |
| D58 | When the 4 months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, unless they repent, pray and pay the alms tax | 9(2) |
| D59 | If an idolater seeks asylum, give him protection so he can hear the word of God, then convey him to safety | 9 |
| D60 | Fight against those who have the scriptures, but don't believe in God, the Last Day, or don't forbid what the Apostle has forbidden | 9 |
| D49 | Make war on the unbelievers until idolatry is no more, and on the infidels around you | 8,9 |
| D33 | Show discernment when fighting for the cause; don't bad mouth those who seek peace so that you can grab booty | 4 |
| D34 | Leave your dwelling and fight for the cause - you will be rewarded if you die | 4 |
| D51 | Distinguish between the treaty breakers and their followers; the latter can just be warned | 8,9 |
| D52 | If they incline to peace, make peace with them | 8 |
| D53 | Offer captives mercy if there is goodness in their hearts | 8 |
| D54 | Come to the aid of those that embraced the faith, even if they didn't leave their homes | 8 |
| D55 | Give generous provision to those that embraced the faith and did leave their homes | 8,9 |
| D36 | Seek out your enemies relentlessly | 4 |
| Q35 | Those that make war on God and his apostle and spread disorders in the land shall be put to death or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or be banished from the country. | 5 |
| N53 | Don't be reluctant to fight, or choose only to fight the unarmed part of the enemy | 8,9(4) |
| N54 | Don't take captives until one has fought and triumphed; the real reward is in the world to come | 8 |
| N25 | Don't lag behind when marching to war | 4 |
| N11 | Don't attack first, or be the aggressor | 2 |
| N12 | Don't duck out of fighting when it's needed | 2 |
| N58 | Don't seek exemption from fighting on account of one's wealth | 9 |
| N59 | Don't send all the faithful to war at one time; leave some behind to instruct those who stay and admonish those who return | 9 |
| N62 | Don't break oaths as soon as you find yourself superior in numbers | 16 |
| L1 | Leave property equally to parents and kinsfolk | 2 |
| L2 | Don't alter a will after it has been read, except for correcting clear errors | 2 |
| L3 | Specific proportions for dividing legacies (p357-8 and 374), including general rule: male gets twice as much as a female | 4 |
| L4 | Leave assets to your appointed (as above heirs), including any with whom you have entered into agreements | 4 |
| L5 | Get 2 witnesses when making a will, ask them to swear to be honest if needed | 5 |
| Q9 | Women are your fields - go, then into your fields as you please | 2 |
| D83 | Men should restrain carnal desire, except with wives and slave girls | 23,70 |
| W50 | Male and female were created such that their endeavours have different ends | 92 |
| W48 | Mohammed claimed God had absolved him from any wrongdoing when he was found with a Coptic slave girl he had promised to give up. Instead he blamed his wives for not keeping his confidence, threatening them with divorce | 66 |
| W3 | If renouncing a wife on oath (2nd call), wait 4 months before 3rd and final call, to allow for a possible change of mind | 2,65 |
| W4 | Divorced wives (3rd call) must stay for 3 menstruations in case there is a child coming | 2 |
| W5 | Widows must wait 4 months and 10 days before re-marrying | 2 |
| W6 | If divorcing a wife before consummation, must return at least half her dowry (in #4, it says all) | 2,4 |
| W7 | Widows must have at least a year's maintenance in a husband's will, unless they choose to re-marry or leave | 2 |
| W8 | Divorced mothers must be supported by the fathers of their child for 2 years (to give suck) | 2 |
| W9 | Although men have higher status, women have equal rights as regards justice | 2 |
| W10 | It's OK (after the Koran) to lie with one's wives on the nights of fasting periods | 2 |
| W11 | If any wives commit fornication, get 4 witnesses and if they testify to guilt, confine the women to their houses | 4 |
| W14 | Slaves as wives suffer half the adultery penalty of free believing wives | 4 |
| W15 | Men have authority over women because they maintain them, so women should be obedient. | 4 |
| W16 | If you fear disobedience from wives, send them to bed and beat them. | 4 |
| W17 | If you fear a breach between a couple, appoint an arbiter from each family | 4 |
| W18 | Treat orphan girls with fairness, and marry more wives if need be | 4 |
| W19 | Give women their dowry as a free gift, unless they choose otherwise | 4 |
| W20 | If a woman fears ill-treatment or desertion on the part of her husband, it is best to seek a mutual agreement | 4 |
| W22 | Jewish and Christian believing women are OK | 5 |
| W24 | The adulterer and the adulteress shall each be given a hundred lashes | 24 |
| W25 | An adulterer/-ess may only marry an adulteress/-er or an idolater. True believers may not marry these. Unclean women for unclean men and good women for good men. | 24 |
| W26 | Those that defame honourable women and can't produce 4 witnesses shall be given 80 lashes | 24 |
| W27 | If accusing a wife, need to swear by God 4 times, and similarly for a wife denying the charge | 24 |
| W28 | Preserve chastity and cover adornments (except such as are normally displayed) | 24 |
| W29 | Draw veils over bosoms and don't reveal finery except to husband, father, sons, stepsons, brothers, brothers' sons, sisters' sons, women servants, slave girls, male eunuchs and young children | 24 |
| W30 | Take in marriage those among you who are single and those of your male and female slaves who are honest | 24 |
| W31 | If unable to afford to marry, live in continence | 24 |
| W33 | Wives of the prophet shall be doubly punished for sins; don't be too complaisant in speech | 33 |
| W34 | If divorcing a wife before consummation, no waiting period is needed, but provide for them and release them honourably | 33 |
| W35 | Generally looser rules for whom the Prophet can marry than for anyone else; including no restriction on slave girls | 33 |
| W38 | Hand back the dowries of women who seek refuge and believe, and don't return them to infidels | 60 |
| W39 | Pay to get back your wives who went to the unbelievers | 60 |
| W40 | You have a potential enemy in your wives and children, but forgive their minor faults | 64 |
| W43 | After the waiting period for divorce, keep her with kindness and part honourably, calling 2 witnesses | 65 |
| W44 | The waiting period is reduced to 3 months for wives not yet at puberty or post menopause | 65 |
| W45 | For pregnant women, the waiting period only ends with her confinement. If they give birth, allow her to feed it, giver her her pay, and consult reasonably | 65 |
| W46 | Lodge wives you have divorced in your own home, and do not harass them | 65 |
| W47 | If you can't get on with a divorced wife who has a baby, get another woman to suckle it | 65 |
| W49 | The wives of Noah and Lot were bad, and would go to Hell. Good wives included Pharaoh's wife, and Mary | 66 |
| N91 | Don't wed pagan women | 2 |
| W2 | Don't take property from women you divorce | 2 |
| W13 | Don't wed related women (list - p359) | 4 |
| W12 | It's illegal to inherit the women of deceased kinsfolk, or prevent them from re-marrying | 4 |
| W21 | Don't set yourself altogether against any one wife | 4 |
| W32 | Don't force slave girls into prostitution in order to make money for yourself | 24 |
| W36 | Don't divorce wives with the words "be as my mother's back" - on penalty of freeing a slave or fasting for 2 months | 58 |
| W37 | Don't stay married to unbelieving women, and demand back their dowries | 60 |
| W41 | Don't let possession of wives and children tempt you to think you are doing OK | 64 |
| W42 | Don't expel wives unless they commit a crime | 65 |
| D75 | Name adopted sons after their fathers; if unknown, then regard them as brothers in the faith | 33 |
| D69 | If a slave wants to buy liberty, free them if they show promise and give them gifts | 24 |
| D70 | Slaves and children should ask permission to intrude on your morning prayers or undressed siesta | 24 |
| D71 | Children after puberty should still ask leave like slaves and children | 24 |
| N44 | Don't kill your children because you can't support them (God will provide) | 6,17 |
| N84 | Don't bury infant girls alive (as was the previous custom) | 81 |
| N61 | Don't deny one's slaves a fair share of one's possessions | 16 |
| E7 | It's OK, if you have trained the birds or beasts of prey, to eat what they catch | 5 |
| E8 | Follow the same rules as the Jews do | 5 |
| E10 | Fish is OK | 5 |
| E11 | Eat only of flesh which has been consecrated in His name | 6(2) |
| E12 | The fruits of palm, olive and pomegranate when they ripen | 6 |
| E13 | Sheep, goats, camels and cattle - OK | 6 |
| E16 | Flesh of cattle is OK unless otherwise mentioned | 22,23 |
| E17 | Milk from beasts | 23 |
| E18 | Eat that which is wholesome | 23 |
| E19 | OK to let blind, lame, sick to eat at your table | 24 |
| E20 | OK to eat in the houses of your own children, father, mother, brothers, sisters, paternal and maternal uncles and aunts or friends; or in any house of which you are entrusted with the keys | 24 |
| D38 | Eat any beast unless forbidden | 5 |
| E1 | Don't eat: animals that die a natural death | 5,16 |
| E2 | Don't eat: (running) blood | 5,6,16 |
| E3 | Don't eat: pig's meat | 5,6,16 |
| E4 | Don't eat: flesh dedicated to other gods, or sacrificed to idols | 5 |
| E5 | Don't eat: animals strangled, beaten or gored to death | 5 |
| E6 | Don't eat: animals killed by a fall or mangled by beasts of prey (unless cleansed by giving the death stoke oneself) | 5 |
| E9 | Don't drink: wine | 5 |
| E14 | Don't eat carrion | 6 |
| E15 | Avoid excess | 7 |
| T1 | Write down all debt contracts properly (p355); use a scribe if needed | 2 |
| T2 | Get witnesses to any barter deals | 2 |
| T5 | Give just weight and full measure | 6,17,55 |
| T6 | Cease trading for Friday prayers, don't flock to merchandise and merriment | 62 |
| N85 | Don't demand full weight from others, but then defraud them yourself | 83 |
| D21 | Punish both men if they have been committing indecency, but allow for repentance | 4 |
| D27 | If you disagree about anything, refer it to God and the Apostle, don't doubt the justice and submit to the verdict | 4 |
| D29 | Mediate in a good cause | 4 |
| D32 | If you accidentally kill someone. free a Muslim slave and pay blood money (details p366) | 4 |
| D40 | Deal justly | 5 |
| D37 | Conduct yourself with justice and bear true witness, even if it's against yourself | 4 |
| T3 | Cut off the hands of men or women guilty of theft | 5 |
| N27 | Don't plead for traitors (maybe OK for this life, but not the next) | 4 |
| N28 | Don't commit an offence then blame an innocent person for it | 4 |
| N29 | Don't distort your testimony or decline to give it | 4 |
| N3 | Don't confound truth with falsehood, or hide the truth | 2 |
| N4 | Don't enjoin righteousness on others, but forget it oneself | 2 |
| N6 | Don't kill or evict your kinsfolk | 2 |
| N9 | Don't usurp property by unjust means | 2 |
| N10 | Don't bribe judges | 2 |
| N63 | Don't practice indecency, wickedness and oppression | 16 |
| N64 | Don't take oaths to deceive each other | 16 |
| N37 | Don't allow hatred of other men to lead you into sin | 5(2) |
| N38 | Don't settle disputes by consulting the Arrows | 5(2) |
| N39 | Don't judge out of accordance with God's revelations | 5 |
| T4 | Don't break oaths: penalty is feeding of 10 needy men or freeing of a slave, otherwise fast 3 days | 5 |
| D26 | Obey God and those in authority | 4,8 |
| D39 | Wash after toilet and intercourse | 5 |
| D68 | Do good works | 23 |
| D73 | Keep the golden mean | 25 |
| D81 | Be attentive, obedient and charitable | 64,89 |
| D82 | Preserve yourself from your own greed, curb your soul's desires | 64,79 |
| D90 | Serve God | 98 |
| D95 | Give glory to God in victory | 110 |
| N13 | Don't drink and gamble (does more harm than good) | 2,5 |
| N14 | Don't make oaths "by God" | 2 |
| N19 | Don't consume your wealth in vanity | 4 |
| N20 | Don't covet those who are better off | 4 |
| N21 | Don't kill one another (believer), except by accident | 4(2) |
| N30 | Don't be led by passion | 4 |
| N43 | Don't sin, either openly or in secret | 6(2) |
| N45 | Don't kill, except in a just cause | 6,17,25 |
| N48 | Don't do indecent acts | 7 |
| N66 | Don't commit adultery | 17 |
| N71 | Don't envy the worldly benefits bestowed on some people - they only been given them in order to try them | 20 |
| N93 | Don't be a conjuring witch, or an envier | 113 |
| P1 | Are an unbeliever (in God and the Last Day), whether warned by Mohammed or not | 2,3(2),4(2),5,6(2),7,8(3),9,11,24 30,82 |
| P2 | Are a hypocrite, i.e. say that you believe and do good, but don't do so in practice | 2,3 |
| P3 | Deny and reject the revelations (presumably in the Koran) | 2,3(3),4,5,6,7(2),9,11,16,18,22 30 |
| P4 | Buy life in this world at the price of the Life to Come | 2 |
| P5 | Worship idols | 2,21 |
| P6 | Repeat a criminal act once already arraigned | 2,4 |
| P7 | Recant from the faith | 2,3(3),9 |
| P8 | Practice usury (= lend money at interest) | 2,3 |
| P9 | Barter for forgiveness (from due punishment) and guidance (from error) | 2 |
| P10 | Kill men who preach fair dealing | 3 |
| P11 | Slay God's prophets | 3 |
| P12 | Choose a religion other than Islam | 3 |
| P13 | Rejoice in one's misdeeds and expect praise for what one hasn't done | 3 |
| P14 | Devour the property of orphans unjustly | 4 |
| P15 | Kill others through wickedness and injustice | 4 |
| P16 | Disbelieve and disobey the Apostle | 4,6,9 |
| P17 | Kill a believer by design | 4 |
| P18 | Choose Satan rather than God | 4,22 |
| P19 | Make untrue statements about God | 6,7 |
| P20 | Wantonly slay one's own children | 6 |
| P21 | Debar others from the path to God | 7,11,47 |
| P22 | Make one's religion a pastime and idle sport, and be seduced by earthly life | 7 |
| P23 | Turn one's back to infidel armies in flight | 8 |
| P24 | Hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in God's cause | 9 |
| P25 | Be hypocritical by appearing to accept God just to please the Apostle | 9 |
| P26 | Be counted among the wrongdoers | 10 |
| P27 | Disobey God | 13 |
| P28 | Be a waverer or a doubter | 57 |
| P29 | Befriend Jews, or oppose the Apostle | 58 |
| P30 | Neither believe nor pray | 75 |
| P31 | Diggers of the trench, who lighted the fire to torture the faithful | 85 |
| P32 | Persecute believers, whether men or women | 85 |
| C1 | Gardens watered by running streams | 2,3(4), 4(3),5(2),7,9(3)10,13,16, 22(2),25,44,48,51,54,56,57 61,64,66,70,85,98 |
| C4 | Cool shade, shady groves | 4,13,36,55,76,77 |
| C6 | Goodly mansions | 9 |
| C8 | Fountains, gushing springs | 15,44,51,55,56,76,77,88 |
| C10 | Soft couches, arranged in rows, with thick brocade and jewels | ?15,36,52,55,76,88 |
| C11 | Decked with pearls and bracelets of gold (or silver) | ?15,22,35,76 |
| C12 | Arrayed in garments of (fine green) silk and rich brocade | ?15,22,35,44,76(3) |
| C13 | Gardens of delight | 22,30,31,56 |
| C17 | All that your souls desire and hearts rejoice in | 41,43 |
| C19 | Golden dishes, goblets and cups | 43,88 |
| C26 | Dwell in bliss, eat and drink in joy | 52 |
| C35 | Green cushions ranged in order, rich carpets richly spread | 55,88 |
| C37 | Couches raised on high in the shade of thornless sidrahs and clusters of talh | 56 |
| C39 | Silver dishes and goblets | 76 |
| C40 | Equable temperature | 76 |
| C45 | Lofty garden | 69,88 |
| C2 | Fruits (like what one was used to in life on earth) hanging within reach, unlimited | 2,13,36,37,55,69,76 |
| C15 | Drinks from a fountain served in goblets, won't dull their senses | 37 |
| C21 | Every kind of fruit, inc date palms, pomegranates | 44,47,52,55,56 |
| C22 | Unpolluted water | 47 |
| C23 | Rivers of ever-fresh milk | 47 |
| C24 | Rivers of delectable wine and clearest honey | 47 |
| C27 | Meats | 52 |
| C28 | Cup passed hand to hand | 52 |
| C33 | Fruit in pairs | 55 |
| C38 | Drink from cup tempered at the camphor fountain | 76 |
| C41 | Cups full of ginger-flavoured water from the fount of Selsabil | 76 |
| C43 | Drink of pure wine, securely sealed, whose very dregs are musk, tempered by waters of Tasnim | 83 |
| C3 | Being wedded to chaste virgins | 2,3,4 |
| C20 | Wedded to dark-eyed houris | 44,52 |
| C16 | Bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches, as companions | 37,55(3),56 |
| C42 | High-bosomed maidens for companions | 78 |
| C34 | Virgins sheltered in their tents | 55 |
| C25 | Both men and women qualify | 48 |
| C7 | Not only you get in if you conform, also the righteous among your fathers, their wives and their (faithful) descendants | 13,52 |
| C18 | You will be with your spouses | 43 |
| C14 | Lying face to face | 37,56 |
| C30 | Served by young immortal boys with bowls and ewers | 52,56,76 |
| C5 | Dwell with the prophet and saints, martyrs and righteous men, gracious companions | 4 |
| C31 | Honourably seated in the presence of a mighty king | 54 |
| C32 | Separate gardens for men and jinn | 55 |
| C9 | Toil shall not weary them | 15 |
| C29 | No idle talk, no sinful urge or speech | 52,56,88 |
| C36 | Only the greeting "peace, peace" | 56 |
| C44 | Go back rejoicing to one's people | 84 |
| H1 | A dismal resting place | 3 |
| H2 | No sooner will their skins be consumed, one gets new skins to burn again | 4 |
| H3 | Sheets of blazing, scorching fire, raging and roaring | 7,25,67,76,88 |
| H4 | Hoarders will have their foreheads, sides and backs branded by their heated gold and silver | 9 |
| H5 | Drink boiling water, tearing bowels and simmering in the belly | 10,37,44,47,78,88 |
| H6 | Be covered by misery as though veiled in total darkness | 10 |
| H7 | Necks bound by chains (of iron, reaching to their chins) | 13,34(2),36,40 |
| H8 | Drink stinking water, sip but scarcely swallow | 14 |
| H9 | Bound with fetters and chains | 14,76 |
| H10 | Garments blackened with pitch | 14 |
| H11 | Heads covered with flames | 14 |
| H12 | Whenever its flames die down, God will rekindle them into a greater fire | 17 |
| H13 | A fire encompassing like the walls of a pavilion | 18 |
| H14 | If crying out for drink, get showered with water as hot as molten brass, scalding faces | 18 |
| H15 | Garments of fire | 22 |
| H16 | Scalding water poured on their heads, melting skins and belly contents | 22 |
| H17 | Lashed with rods of iron | 22 |
| H19 | Chained together in a narrow space | 25 |
| H20 | Eat of the cursed Zaqqum tree - tastes like dregs of oil | 37,44 |
| H21 | Dragged through boiling water | 40 |
| H22 | Burnt in the fire | 40 |
| H23 | Sky will pour down blinding smoke | 44 |
| H24 | Lashed with flames of fire and molten brass | 55 |
| H25 | Lamps, missiles for pelting devils | 67 |
| H26 | Fastened with chains 70 cubits long | 69 |
| H27 | Fire will drag one down by the scalp | 70 |
| H28 | Choking food | 73 |
| H29 | A shadow that rises high in 3 columns | 77 |
| H30 | Sparks as huge as trees, as bright as yellow camels | 77 |
| H31 | Decaying filth to eat | 78 |
| H32 | Neither live nor die | 87 |
| H33 | Only food is bitter thorns | 88 |
| H34 | Flames like towering columns | 104 |
| H35 | (Abu Lahab's wife) laden with faggots, a rope of fibre tied round her neck | 111 |
| G1 | God shapes our bodies in our mothers' wombs | 3 |
| G2 | God creates man from dust, then a living germ, then a clot of blood, then from a half formed lump of flesh, which was made into bones, then clothed with flesh | 3,16,22,23,30,35,36 40,80,96 |
| G3 | God makes us sleep like the dead by night and then rouses us up | 6 |
| G4 | God created us all from one being | 6,7 |
| G5 | God splits the seed and the fruit stone; kindles the light of dawn; ordained the night for rest, the day for work; and the sun and moon for reckoning. Created the stars for night guidance; furnished us with a dwelling place; sends down water from the sky, brings forth the buds of every plant; hence foliage and thickets; and grain, date palms, vineyards, olives, pomegranates, figs | 6,16,50,78,80,95 |
| G6 | 6-day creation | 7,11,32,41,50,57 |
| G7 | God send winds, clouds, rain; thus will he raise the dead to life | 7,35,45 |
| G8 | God makes good soil yield fruit, but poorly from barren soil | 7 |
| G9 | God gives the sun brightness, the moon light, ordains lunar phases, seasons, years, alternation of night and day | 11,13,14,17,22,25, 36,41 |
| G10 | God raised the heavens without visible pillars, forced the sun and moon into His service | 13,31,55 |
| G11 | God spread out the earth and placed upon it rivers and immovable mountains | 13,14,15,16,21,31,50 77,78,88 |
| G12 | God gives all plants their male and female parts | 13 |
| G13 | God makes lightning, heavy clouds, thunder; he hurls his thunderbolts at whom he pleases | 13,24,51 |
| G14 | God sends down water from the sky, filling rivers to overflowing, so torrents bear a swelling foam like with smelted ore. The scum is cast away, but that which is of use to man remains behind. | 13,14,16(2),22(2)23,25,31,35,39,41,43, 50,80 |
| G15 | God creates adjoining plots, vineyards, cornfields, palms singly and in groves, fruits nourished by water, different tastes | 13,23,55 |
| G16 | God drives ships which sail (swiftly gliding) the ocean, calms winds | 14,16,17,22,23,31,35, 42,43,45,51,55 |
| G17 | God provides fruit and sustenance for man and beast | 15,45 |
| G18 | God sends fertilizing winds | 15,25,27 |
| G19 | God created man from dry clay, from black moulded loam, Satan from smokeless fire | 15,55 |
| G20 | God created the beasts that provide clothing and transport; horses, mules, donkeys | 16,43,45 |
| G21 | God brings up corn, olives, dates, grapes and other fruit | 16,50,55,80 |
| G22 | God creates rivers, roads, landmarks | 16,21,27 |
| G23 | God creates cows' milk - a pleasant beverage | 16 |
| G24 | God created palms and vines, from which you derive intoxicants and wholesome food | 16 |
| G25 | God inspired the bee to build hives or use those made by men, and provide a medicinal drink for men | 16 |
| G26 | God gives wives and hence sons and grandsons, kindred, blood and marriage | 16,25 |
| G27 | God brings us out of mothers' wombs devoid of all knowledge, but with ears, eyes and hearts | 16 |
| G28 | God gives houses, skins for tents, comforts and domestic goods, shelter from the sun, refuge in the mountains, garments to protect from the heat, armour to protect in wars | 16 |
| G29 | God created objects of various hues | 16 |
| G30 | God created night and day, sun and moon, stars | 16 |
| G31 | God created the ocean, with its fish and ornaments | 16 |
| G32 | God wrought the creation, not in sport | 16,21 |
| G33 | God created birds that wing their flight in heaven's vault | 16 |
| G34 | God created the heavens and the earth were one solid mass which God tore asunder | 21 |
| G35 | God made every living thing (or just beasts?) of water | 21,24,25 |
| G36 | God holds the sky from falling down | 22 |
| G37 | God created two seas, one salt and one fresh water, with a rampart between | 25,27,35,55 |
| G38 | God decked the sky with constellations and set in it a lamp and a shining moon | 25,37 |
| G39 | God created beneficial, delectable plants | 26,50 |
| G40 | God has planted love and kindness | 30 |
| G41 | God created heaven and earth, diversity of tongues and colours, night for sleep and day for seeking bounty (or work) | 30,42,78 |
| G42 | God creates lightning, rain (x2), winds | 30 |
| G43 | God creates night and day, sun and moon | 31,35,36,55 |
| G45 | God drives the rain to the parched lands | 32,43 |
| G46 | God created distinctions: blind and seeing, darkness and light, shade and heat, living and dead | 35 |
| G47 | God created two sexes, creating men in pairs, male and female | 35,36,78,92 |
| G48 | God creates fruits, men, beasts and cattle of different hues | 35 |
| G49 | God creates canyons with various shades of red and white, and jet black rocks | 35 |
| G50 | God gave life to once-dead earth, produced grain, planted palm and vine, watered it with springs | 36,86 |
| G51 | God created beasts, for eating, milk, riding; camels, cows, sheep, goats | 36,39,88 |
| G52 | God creates plants that grow with water, then wither | 39,87 |
| G53 | God created ornaments in the sky | 50 |
| G54 | God creates dust-gathering winds | 51 |
| G55 | God creates weeping and laughter | 53 |
| G56 | God ordains life and death | 53 |
| G57 | God creates the sexes from a drop of ejected semen, then a clot of blood | 53,75,86 |
| G58 | God teaches man to articulate speech | 55 |
| G59 | God creates pearls and corals | 55 |
| G60 | God creates scented herbs | 55 |
| G61 | God created two easts, two wests (i.e. winter and summer) | 55 |
| G62 | God creates seeds that grow | 56 |
| G63 | God creates wood for fires | 56 |
| G64 | God creates birds that spread and close their wings | 69 |
| G65 | God created man from an unworthy fluid, kept in a safe receptacle (the womb) for an appointed time | 77 |
| G66 | God creates fresh drinking water | 77 |
| G67 | God spread out the earth, drawing water from its depth | 79 |
| G69 | God creates pastures and mountains for cattle to graze | 79,80 |
| G70 | God created turning planets that rise and set | 81 |
| G71 | God created heaven's recurring cycles | 86 |
| G72 | God created heaven on high mountains | 88 |
| M1 | David slew Goliath | 2 |
| M2 | Satan refused to bow down before man (i.e. the newly-created Adam) | 2,7,15,17,18,20, 38 |
| M3 | Life in Hell and Paradise lasts for ever | 2,3 |
| M4 | Solomon's devils | 2 |
| M5 | Harut and Marut from Babylon | 2 |
| M7 | Things in the Mecca temple, which was built by God for men | 3 |
| M8 | God turns those with whom he is angry into apes and swine | 5 |
| M9 | God sends guardians to watch over us and carry away our souls without fail when death overtakes us | 6 |
| M10 | Earlier sinful generations and nations have been destroyed; God granted them their desires, but just as they were rejoicing, He smote them. Their buildings are rarely inhabited | 6,10,11,15,17,18, 19(2),20,21,22,23 28,38,47,50,54 65,77 |
| M11 | God laid many cities (or nations) in ruin (like Sodom and Gomorrah presumably) | 7 |
| M12 | Not until a camel passes through the eye of a needle | 7 |
| M13 | God crushed the mountain to dust before Moses | 7 |
| M14 | God changed wrongdoers into "detested" apes | 7 |
| M15 | God suspended the mountain over those with the scriptures, to create fear that it might fall down on them | 7 |
| M16 | God sent sleep on the army, a token of his protection | 8 |
| M17 | God sent rain to cleanse the army from Satan's filth | 8 |
| M18 | God ordained 12 months at creation time, and 4 are sacred | 9 |
| M19 | Shadows are objects prostrating themselves to God | 16 |
| M20 | The cursed Zaqqum tree | 17 |
| M21 | The seven sleepers | 18 |
| M22 | The testing of Moses | 18 |
| M23 | The journeys of Dhul-Qarnain (possibly Alexander) | 18 |
| M24 | The night journey (Mecca to Jerusalem) | 17 |
| M25 | Gog and Magog | 21 |
| M26 | God's favours to Moses, including Aaron's stick to serpent trick | 26 |
| M27 | Seven heavens, lowest is Hell | 2,17,65,67,78 |
| M28 | All men are descended from a single being (Adam) | 39 |
| M29 | Malek - a mythical keeper of hell | 43 |
| M30 | Two keepers | 50 |
| M31 | The Sidrah tree, which no-one may pass, near the garden of repose | 53 |
| M32 | The 3 daughters of God worshipped by the Meccans | 53 |
| M33 | Numerous angels in the heavens | 53 |
| M34 | God is Lord of Sirius | 53 |
| M35 | The moon is cleft in two as a sign of the hour of Doom | 54 |
| M36 | God created jinn from smokeless fire | 55 |
| M37 | God ruined the orchards of the owners who didn't say "insha'llah" when planning to pick next morning | 68 |
| M38 | The soul snatchers | 79 |
| M39 | Sidjeen - the sealed book of all bad peoples' acts and thoughts. Good peoples' are in another book, Illiyun | 83 |
| M40 | For every soul, there is a guardian (angel?) | 86 |
| M41 | The dawn and the 10 nights | 89 |
| M42 | The dual and the single | 89 |
| M43 | The night of Qadr, when the Koran was revealed | 97 |
| M44 | Earth rocked in her last convulsion, shakes off her burdens, and will ask "what may this mean?" | 99 |
| M45 | Snorting war steeds | 100 |
| M46 | "The Disaster" = the Last Day | 101 |
| M47 | God used birds to pelt an army of elephants with clay stones | 105 |
| M48 | The mischief of his creation | 113 |
| Y1 | Moses, and Pharaoh's oppression of Israelites | 2,3,7,10,11,14,17,20, 23,25,26,27,28,37, 38,40,42,43,44,50 51,54,61,69,73 79,85,89 |
| Y2 | Moses and the 10 commandments | 2,7,17,21 |
| Y3 | The Israelites in the desert: manna, quails and water from the rock | 2,7 |
| Y4 | The golden calf episode | 2,4,7 |
| Y5 | Mankind was formerly all one nation, and as such received "The Book" | 2 |
| Y6 | Adam and Eve | 2,3,7,20 |
| Y7 | Noah and the Ark | 3,7,9,10,11,14,17, 19,22,23,25,29,36, 37,38,42,50,51,53 54,57,69,71 |
| Y8 | Imran(1) - father of Moses and Aaron | 3 |
| Y9 | Imran(2)'s wife - mother of Virgin Mary | 3 |
| Y10 | Birth of John (Baptist) to Zacharias and barren wife | 3,17 |
| Y11 | Birth of of Jesus son of Mary | 3,19,23 |
| Y12 | Jesus's miracles and dispensations | 3 |
| Y13 | Abraham was neither Jew or Christian, Torah and Gospel were revealed later | 3 |
| Y14 | If Mohammed hadn't been lenient to those who ran at the defeat of Ubud, they would have deserted Islam | 3 |
| Y15 | Moses and co entering the holy land | 5 |
| Y16 | Cain and Abel | 5 |
| Y17 | Abraham and his father and family | 6,9(2)11,14,15,16, 19,21,22,29,37,38, 42,43,51,57,60 |
| Y18 | Isaac, Jacob, Noah, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Zacharias, John (Baptist), Jesus, Elias, Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah, Lot - all good men, had covenant | 6,21,33 |
| Y19 | God sent Houd to the tribe of Aad, who rejected him; God annihilated those that disbelieved | 7,9,11,14,22,25,26, 38,41,46,50,51,53 69,89 |
| Y20 | God sent Saleh to Thamoud (or Hijr), also the she-camel which they slew. God destroyed them by earthquake | 7,9,11,14,15,17,22, 25,26,27,38,41,50 51,53,54,69,85,89 91 |
| Y21 | Lot criticised the Sodomites ('Mu'tafikah'), but Lot and kinsfolk (except wife) escaped when God brought down a shower of stones | 7,9,11,15,22,27,29, 37,50,53,54 |
| Y21 | God sent Shoaib to Midian; they ignored him and God sent an earthquake | 7,9,11,15,22,26,29 50 |
| Y24 | Parting of the Red Sea | 7,8,10 |
| Y25 | At the time of the Golden Calf, God said he would show mercy to those that follow the "unlettered prophet" mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel (RT: it's actually in Isaiah chapter 29 verse 12) | 7 |
| Y26 | Because the inhabitants of Eilat broke the sabbath, God made the fish only appear on the sabbath | 7 |
| Y27 | God wouldn't send down stones on the Meccans when they challenged the revelations | 7 |
| Y28 | At the battle of Badr, God made each army to appear to the other as few in number | 8 |
| Y29 | Jews say Ezra is son of God, Christians say the Messiah is | 8 |
| Y30 | Jews and Christians worship rabbis and monks | 9 |
| Y31 | Many rabbis and monks defraud men of their possessions | 9 |
| Y32 | There was a time when men followed but one religion, but they disagreed. Had God not deferred their punishment, the differences would have long been settled | 9 |
| Y33 | Jonah | 10,37,68 |
| Y34 | God told Noah to also take on board his tribe (except those already doomed) and all true believers | 10 |
| Y35 | Joseph | 11 |
| Y36 | God inflicted famine and fear on Mecca | 12,68 |
| Y37 | God sent 2 large armies (Assyrians and Romans) to punish the Israelites | 16 |
| Y38 | God gave David the Psalms | 17 |
| Y41 | Moses and Aaron, Ishmael and Idris (Enoch) | 19 |
| Y42 | Ar Rass - was also destroyed | 25,50 |
| Y43 | Solomon and the ants - and the Queen of Sheba | 27,38 |
| Y44 | Korah, one of Moses' people, treated believers with insolence; claimed the riches he had were because of his knowledge. He and his dwelling were swallowed up | 28 |
| Y45 | Greeks defeated by the Persians (615 AD) | 30 |
| Y46 | Luqman - a relative of Job - a sage | 31 |
| Y47 | Confederate tribes eventually raised the siege of Medina (Yathrib) | 33 |
| Y48 | Claimed Mohammed (and everyone else now) was OK to wed the wives of their adopted sons after they had been divorced (previously prohibited) | 33 |
| Y49 | God unloosed the waters of dams on Sheba and replaced gardens with bitter fruit, tamarisks and nettles | 34 |
| Y50 | Prophets sent to Antioch were ignored and the people fell down lifeless | 36 |
| Y51 | Elias and Baal | 37 |
| Y52 | David (the 99 and 1 ewes parable - was the one ewe Bathsheba?), Solomon and Job were put to the test | 38 |
| Y53 | Ishmael, Elisha and Ezekiel | 38 |
| Y54 | Jesus as a prophet | 42,43,57,61 |
| Y55 | God destroyed the Tobba people (Hamyar) | 44,50 |
| Y57 | God drove out unbelievers among the Jews of Nadhir and Kainoka | 59 |
| Y58 | God destroyed the people of Iram | 89 |
| Y59 | Mount Sinai (not in connection with Moses and the commandments) | 95 |
| Y60 | God protected the Quraysh in famine | 106 |
| Y61 | The prophet's uncle (Abu Lahab) was an opponent | 111 |
| M6 | Moslems won the battle of Badr | 3 |
| B2 | Children of Israel, ... | 2 |
| B3 | The Koran confirms previous scriptures | 2,10 |
| B4 | The Jews disbelieved, and slew, many prophets | 2 |
| B5 | Some people of the Book say "we are not bound to keep faith with Gentiles" | 3 |
| B6 | Few of the people of the Book are true believers, and most of them are evildoers | 3 |
| B7 | Among the people of the Book are some righteous men; their reward shall not be denied them | 3 |
| B8 | There is no virtue in much of their (people of the Book) counsels: only when they enjoin charity, kindness and peace among men. | 4 |
| B9 | They (the Jews) did not kill him (Jesus), nor did they crucify him, but they thought they did | 4 |
| B10 | You will ever find them (the Jews) deceitful, except for a few of them | 5 |
| B11 | They (people of the Book) treat their prayers as a jest and a pastime; they are devoid of understanding; most are evildoers | 5 |
| B12 | Christians are nearest to Moslems, as their priests and monks are free from pride | 5 |
| B13 | Jesus didn't ever say "worship me and my mother as gods" | 5 |
| B14 | God forbid that God has begotten a son | 10,23,25, 37,39,43 |
| B15 | True believers, Jews, Sabaeans, Christians, Magians (RT: Zoroastrians?) and pagans will all be judged on the Day | 22 |
| B16 | After God gave the Jews the Torah, it wasn't long before they disagreed with each other about it | 41 |
| B17 | Monasticism: people made the concept up themselves, God didn't | 57 |
| B18 | "The proof" (revelation of some sort, I assume) caused unbelievers among the people of the book to desist from unbelief, but then they disagreed among themselves | 98 |
| B19 | God begot none, nor is begotten | 112 |
| Q4 | There shall be no compulsion in religion (RT: but see this page) | 2 (p352) |
| Q1 | Idolatry is worse than carnage | 2(2) |
| Q13 | Some of the Koran's verses are precise in meaning, and others are ambiguous; about the latter, no-one knows the meaning except God | 3 |
| Q98 | God created life and death, and man from the union of 2 sexes, to put men to the proof, to try him with afflictions | 67,76,90 |
| Q20 | God alternates vicissitudes to test for true believers | 3 |
| Q68 | God rewards men and women according to their noblest deeds. If they embrace the faith and do what is right, God will surely grant a happy life | 16 |
| Q86 | If a misfortune befalls you, it is the fruit of your own labours | 42 |
| Q96 | Every misfortune that befalls the earth or persons is ordained | 57 |
| Q60 | He that goes astray does so at his own peril (RT: implies there is some call to personal responsibility) | 10 |
| Q26 | It was the Moslems' own fault (when its army hit a disaster, e.g. when they lost the Battle of Ubud) | 3 |
| Q39 | The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime, like plants that grow and later wither; the life to come is a richer prize | 6,29,47 57,93 |
| Q100 | Mohammed could not tell whether the scourge is imminent, or if God has set it for a far off day | 72 |
| Q75 | Impatience is the very stuff man is made of | 21 |
| Q93 | One's lot in the next life is the same whether one is patient or impatient | 52 |
| Q46 | Wait if you will; we too are waiting | 6,7,11 |
| Q94 | God is merciful to those who commit only small offences | 53 |
| Q36 | Torah says "eye for an eye" etc, but if a man charitably forbears from retaliation, that's good | 5 |
| Q94 | Conjecture is no substitute for truth | 53 |
| Q41 | We have left out nothing in our book (but see the 'not mentioned' section of my related essay) | 6 |
| Q2 | God does not charge a soul with more than it can bear | 2,6,23,65 |
| Q3 | A kind word with forgiveness is better than charity followed by insult | 2 |
| Q5 | By parables God enlightens some, but only misleads evildoers | 2 |
| Q6 | Abraham was not exclusively Jewish; we should return to his faith | 2 |
| Q7 | Those slain in the cause of God are still alive, but are unseen | 2 |
| Q8 | Menstruation is just a temporary indisposition (i.e. it's not unclean) | 2 |
| Q10 | Unbelievers understand nothing | 2 |
| Q11 | Retaliation is permitted, although one can instead pardon the offender with payment of a fine | 2 |
| Q12 | God's help is ever near in our adversity, but we must be prepared to endure | 2 |
| Q14 | God need only say "Be", and it is | 3,16 |
| Q15 | How can you not believe when God's revelations are recited to you and his Apostle is in our midst? | 3 |
| Q16 | Riches and children won't protect unbelievers from God's scourge | 3,34 |
| Q17 | Victory (in battle) comes only from God | 3 |
| Q18 | God pardons whom He will and punishes whom He pleases | 3 |
| Q19 | If you have suffered a defeat, so did the enemy (presumably, on other occasions) | 3 |
| Q21 | God chooses martyrs | 3 |
| Q22 | He that desires the reward of this world shall have it (presumably for Moslem fighters?) | 3 |
| Q23 | If you yield to the infidels they will drag you back to unbelief | 3 |
| Q24 | God will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers (presumably for fighting in battles) | 3 |
| Q25 | When you fled from battle (presumably Ubud) in panic, God rewarded you with sorrow after sorrow, so that you might not grieve for what you missed or what befell you | 3 |
| Q27 | God prolongs the days of the unbelievers only so that they may grow in wickedness | 3 |
| Q28 | The riches men pile up shall become fetters on the Last Day | 3 |
| Q29 | Trifling are the pleasures of this life. The hereafter is better for those who would keep from evil | 4,13 |
| Q30 | Would you guide those whom God has caused to err? They cannot be guided | 4,5,18 |
| Q31 | Believers who stay at home are not equal to those that fight for the cause | 4 |
| Q32 | Those that flee their homeland for the cause will find plenty of refuge and great abundance | 4 |
| Q33 | God will forgive whom he will all other sins except idolatry | 4 |
| Q34 | Believers who do good works, whether men or women, shall enter the gardens of Paradise | 4 |
| Q37 | If we had sent down an angel, we would have given him the semblance of a mortal, and would have confused them (the unbelievers) with that in which they are already confused | 6 |
| Q38 | Those who have forfeited their own souls will never have faith | 6(2) |
| Q40 | All the beasts that roam the earth and all the birds that wing their flight are communities like your own | 6 |
| Q42 | He has knowledge of all that land and sea contain; every leaf that falls is known to Him. There is no grain of soil in the darkest bowels of the earth, nor anything green or sear, but is recorded | 6,10 |
| Q43 | We have assigned for every prophet an enemy, the devils among men and jinn, who inspire one another with vain and varnished falsehoods | 6 |
| Q44 | We have placed in every city arch-transgressors who scheme within its walls | 6 |
| Q45 | The scriptures were revealed only to two sects before us (Jews and Christians) | 6 |
| Q47 | On the last day peoples' deeds will be weighed with justice; those whose scales are light shall lose their souls, because they have denied Our revelations | 7 |
| Q48 | (To Adam and Eve) May your descendants be enemies to each other | 7 |
| Q49 | Some he has guided and some he has justly led astray | 7 |
| Q50 | A space of time is fixed for every nation | 7 |
| Q51 | Do not corrupt the land after it has been purged of evil | 7(2) |
| Q52 | God: I will visit my scourge on whom I please | 7 |
| Q53 | It's not you that slays the enemy, it's God | 8 |
| Q54 | The meanest beasts in God's sight are those that are deaf, dumb and devoid of reason | 8 |
| Q55 | The basest are those who violate treaties with the prophet's army; break off the treaty in retaliation | 8 |
| Q56 | The desert Arabs surpass the town-dwellers in unbelief and hypocrisy; they regard anything they give as a compulsory fine | 9 |
| Q57 | God will behold your works ... and will declare all you have done | 9,11 |
| Q58 | God has purchased of the faithful their lives and worldly goods in return for the promise of the Garden | 9 |
| Q59 | The present life is like the golden robe with which the earth bedecks itself when watered by the rain. Crops grow luxuriantly, but at harvest time God lays it waste | 10 |
| Q61 | Those that desire the life of this world with all its frippery shall be rewarded for their deeds in their own lifetime; nothing shall be denied them. In the world to come they shall be rewarded with hellfire | 11 |
| Q62 | Unbelievers - will have ill-fortune at their very doorstep; none can guide those whom God has led astray, they shall be punished in this life (although the life to come will be worse) | 13 |
| Q63 | On the Day, trading shall cease and friendships be no more | 14 |
| Q64 | Eavesdroppers are pursued by fiery comets, find flaming darts in wait for them | 15,72 |
| Q65 | Some of you will have lives prolonged to abject old age, when all that they once knew they shall know no more | 16 |
| Q66 | A helpless slave and a man with bounty that he gives of, are not alike | 16 |
| Q67 | A dumb and helpless man, a burden on his master, is not equal to one who is just | 16 |
| Q69 | God has bound the fate of each man round his neck | 17 |
| Q70 | There is no nation but shall be destroyed or sternly punished before the Day of Resurrection | 17 |
| Q71 | The Koran is in sections for gradual revelation | 17,25 |
| Q72 | Parable of the 2 vineyard owners; one boasted and thought it better than any paradise | 18 |
| Q73 | This life is like green herbs that flourish when watered, but turns to stubble which is scattered by the wind | 18 |
| Q74 | Wealth and children are the ornament of this life, but God will blot out the mountains and make the earth a barren waste, leaving not a soul behind | 18 |
| Q76 | Actions as small as a grain of mustard seed shall be weighed out (in the just scales on the Day of Resurrection) | 21 |
| Q77 | God makes Satan's interjections a temptation | 22 |
| Q78 | "Generous provision" (unspecified) for fighters who leave their home and then died or were slain | 22 |
| Q79 | If you repay an injury in kind and are then wronged again, God will help | 22 |
| Q80 | Poets are followed by none save erring men; the rove aimlessly in every valley and preach what they don't practise | 26 |
| Q81 | There are some who would pay for a frivolous tale | 31 |
| Q82 | Blood relations are closer than fellow-travellers | 33 |
| Q83 | No souls shall bear another's burden | 39 |
| Q84 | He that gives the barren earth life will also raise the dead | 41 |
| Q85 | The Koran is in Arabic because that's the language of the Prophet, just as the Torah was in Hebrew for Moses | 41 |
| Q87 | Vengeance is allowed | 42 |
| Q88 | God gives daughters to whom he will and sons to whom he pleases; to some both, to some none | 42 |
| Q89 | The Meccans' excuse: this (worshipping daughters of God) was the faith our fathers practised; we are merely walking in their footsteps | 43 |
| Q90 | When the Prophet has gone, people will turn to each other and ask "What did he say just now?" | 47 |
| Q91 | If you are ungenerous to God, he will replace you by others | 47 |
| Q92 | God knows what the unbelievers say | 50 |
| Q95 | Two classes will be admitted to Paradise: those to the fore (a multitude from then men of old, only a few from later generations), and those on the right (a multitude from both). Those on the left go to Hell | 56 |
| Q97 | God loves those that fight for his cause in ranks | 61 |
| Q99 | Mischief making slanderers will be branded on the nose | 68 |
| Q101 | God has made the number of angels a subject for dispute among the unbelievers | 74 |
| Q102 | God misleads whom he will and guides whom he pleases | 74 |
| Q103 | If God can create the sexes from a drop of ejected semen, then a clot of blood, raising the dead to life is easy | 75 |
| Q104 | Mohammed frowned and turned his back when the blind man came towards him; but was all attention to the wealthy man | 80 |
| Q105 | Man cannot will anything, except by God's permission | 81 |
| Q106 | Every hardship is followed by ease | 94(2) |
| Q107 | God will drag those who rebuke the Prophet by the forelock | 96 |
| Q108 | Worldly gain won't count | 102 |
| Q109 | He that hates Mohammed shall remain childless | 108 |
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This version updated on 20th January 2011
If you have constructive suggestions or comments, please contact the author rogertag@tpg.com.au .